Improvement in hand seed-planters



P. B. GREEN.

l Hand-Seeder.

`Pafuented Apr. 2l, 1857.

N.P|".TERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BLYMON B. GREEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAN-D SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 17,089, dated April 21, 1857.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, PLYMON B. GREEN, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in SeedaPlanters for Planting Corn and other Coarse Grain; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figurel is a perspective view of the planter. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the machine in the position of depositing the seed in the earth,

' 'and before removing it therefrom.'

D is the seed-box; I, bottom of seed-box; J back of planter; O, plunger 5 P, cavity in plunger which receives the seed and retains it until it is carried below the bottom of seed-box by the downward motion of the plunger when it falls to the bottom of planter; B, gage to regulate the amount of seed for each hill; A, foot attached to slide; B, slide; C, catch, E, stop attached to plunger 5 H, guard through which slide B works; L, Catchspring.

Onforcing the machine down, the point K enters the earth until the foot A strikes the earth, when the machine slides down on slide B. Slide B wedges out catch C from under the stop E, and the plunger O slides down and forces the seed into the earth, as represented at Fig. 2. At the same time the seed in cavity P is carried below the seed-box and deposited at S. On raising the planter from' the earth the plunger slidesup and spring L forces the catch C under stopE. Sto E and catch C prevent the plunger from forcing out the seed until the point K enters the earth to a certain depth.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of slide B, catch C, and stop E, constructed and arranged to hold the plunger stationary until the point K enters the earth to a certain depth, substantially as described.

PLYMON B. GREEN. 

